This multi-award-winning film follows a medic through five years of upheaval after US troops withdrew from Iraq.

​Nori Sharif is a father who worked at the local hospital in the war-torn Jalawla city in Diyala province, central Iraq.

When US troops withdrew from Iraq in 2011, Nori started to film the stories of survivors and their hopes for a better future.​As conflicts continued to unfold between different Iraqi militias, the civilian population fled Jalawla, accompanied by most of the hospital staff. Nori was one of the few who remained.

Even before the oil wealth of Kirkuk was discovered, the northern city stood out as Iraq’s most coveted. It’s history aligns with Jerusalem’s, a symbolic capital that multiple group’s lay claim to.

​After oil was struck, claims over the city multiplied as did incidents of naked violence targeting certain ethnic components. FRB’s latest feature takes viewers on a journey through Kirkuk’s troubled history.​

Arabic calligraphy is an ancient art whose roots stretch back to Baghdad under the Abbasid Empire. It is out of modern day Iraq that some of the earliest Arabic scripts emerged. Many of these remain widely practised until the present day. The art has always occupied an important place in Iraq’s artistic scene - but that was before 2003. FRB follows two Iraqi calligraphers both of whom still practise the art away from their native Iraq. This is their story:

The prevalence of child soldiers during Iran and Iraq's long war is a little known reality whose impact is felt until the present day. Thousands of boys, some said to have been as young as nine, fought alongside regular armed forces.

​The experience was chilling. Thousands died in suicidal missions and on the front line. Echoes of the Iranian boy soldier experience can be heard in Iraq today with children being recruited by various sides in Iraq's current war against terror.

​Back in March 2007, in the midst of Iraq's sectarian strife, a suicide blast tore through Baghdad's centuries old centre of knowledge and culture. The site was al Mutanabbi street, where thirty people died and one hundred others were injured.

The attack as many predicted at the time did not mark the death of Iraq's cultural capital, it marked it's rebirth. We take a look back at al Mutanabbi on the ninth anniversary since life on the street was turned upside down.

​Diyala, east of Iraq, has seen a resurgence of sectarian motivated crimes at the hands of government backed militias. Residents, at least those that remain, live in an uncertain climate where death is always near.

Tensions continue to flare as militias, belonging to the popular mobilisation forces, unleash their reign of terror over the province.

Peshmerga forces from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Kurdish militias in northern Iraq have bulldozed, blown up and burned down thousands of homes. This was done in an apparent effort to uproot Arab communities in revenge for their perceived support for the so-called Islamic State (IS) and to establish control of a disputed area of the country they have long claimed as theirs.

Donotella Rovera, an Amnesty crisis researcher, explores the aftermath of these actions:

The scene of a recent attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran provoked memories of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, in which Iranian students stormed America’s embassy, and held 52 hostages for 444 days.

In this video package, Al Arabiya television revisits the event that shook America following the rise of Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: